Quotes about Atoms

8 quotes about Atoms

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about atoms

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Quote by George Gordon Byron about atoms

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up...

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom, through thought I comprehend the world.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about atoms

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Quote by Johannes Stark about atoms

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Quote by Johannes Stark about atoms

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

Quote by Johannes Stark about atoms

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Quote by Niels Bohr about atoms

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a...

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Quote by Jack London about atoms

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